Defiant Gardens

Making Gardens in Wartime

Kenneth I Helphand author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Trinity University Press,U.S.

Published:16th Oct '08

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"Defiant Gardens" examines gardens of war in the twentieth century, including gardens built behind the trenches in World War I, in the ghettos during World War II, and in Japanese-American internment camps in the US, as well as gardens created by soldiers at their bases and encampments during the Gulf War, Vietnam, Korea and the Second World Wars.

"An incredible and deply moving history of the ways in which soldiers and civilians, often in the most grievous and immiserated circumstances, have created little pockets of horticultural hope throughout the twentieth century... The photographs alone are extraordinary, but the chronicles of imaginative resistance are almost beyond belief. (New Statesman)

  • Winner of American Society of Landscape Architecture Award of Excellence in Research 2008
  • Winner of Environmental Design Research Association Research Award 2008
  • Winner of American Horticultural Society Book Award 2008
  • Winner of Foundation for Landscape Studies John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize 2008
  • Winner of ForeWord Magazine’s Silver Medal (history) 2008

ISBN: 9781595340450

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 765g

320 pages

First Trade Paper Edition